A remote reading? With demand up in Chicago, psychics say they’re adapting to client’s needs

Pandora Pappas, a Lake View-based psychic and medium. Her services include sound healing with a variety of instruments, including the flute, on which she is classically trained. (Manuel Martinez/WBEZ)

Christine Bridger buys, flips and rents out vacation properties, so she’s sensitive to the ups and downs of the volatile travel industry. To stay calm, the Evanston businesswoman practices positive manifesting, takes daily “gratification walks” with her husband — and consults a psychic. 

She’s relied on psychics for about a decade to expand her thinking about her business, or, as she puts it, “collaborate on what I might not be envisioning.”